Season 1

John spoke about many well known Irish writers and introduced us to some new ones. Here is a list with links. A couple of the poems are given in full on the transcripts page.

• James Joyce – The Dubliners, Ullysses.
• Roddy Doyle – Dublin sense of humour
  The Commitments, The Van, The Snapper – All made into films.
• Brian Friel
• Translations
  Dancing at Lughnasa
  Philadelphia, Here I Come!
• Brian Patrick Friel has been considered one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. He has been likened to an “Irish Chekhov” and described as “the universally accented voice of Ireland”.
• Sally Rooney
  Normal People – Novel – 2018
  A critically acclaimed and Emmy nominated television adaptation of the same name aired from April 2020.
• Patricia Burke Brogan
• Eclipsed
• Saoirse Ronan,
• Actress  Brooklyn
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• Hiberno-English (from Latin Hibernia: “Ireland“) or Irish English is the set of English dialects natively written and spoken within the island of Ireland (including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).
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• Sinn Féin is one of the two largest parties in the Northern Ireland Assembly,  It is the largest Irish nationalist party, and it holds four ministerial posts in the power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive as of 2020. In the UK House of Commons, Sinn Féin holds seven of Northern Ireland’s 18 seats, making it the second-largest bloc after the DUP; there it follows a policy of abstentionism, refusing to sit in parliament or vote on bills. In the Oireachtas (the parliament of the Republic of Ireland), Sinn Féin currently sits as the main opposition and the second largest party having won the largest share of first-preference votes at the 2020 Irish general election.